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500 BCE
Alcmaeon of Croton completed animal dissections. From these dissections, he realized that veins and arteries are very similar. -
350 BCE
Aristotle had a theory that the heart was the central organ of the body. Through dissections with animals, he noticed that the heart had three chambers. -
130-200 CE
Claudius Galenus had a philosophy about medicine. He treated patients with medine to help them with their sicknesses. -
mid 1200's
Eminent Cairo discovers the pumonary circulation. He noticed how blow flows from the lungs. -
1658
Jan Swammerdam was a 21 year old microscopist. SWammerdam was the first person to observe and describle red blood cells. -
1661
Marcello Malpighi uses a rudimentary microscope to view the capillary system. He notices vessels connect arteries and veins. -
1665
Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion in animals.He connected the dog's jugular vein to the neck artery of the second dog. -
1674
Anton van Leeuwenhoek describes red blood cells 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand. -
1771
William Hewson researched blood coaglation. He found that fibrogen is the key to blood clotting. -
1818
James Blundell performs the first human blood transfusion. He injects the patient after internal bleeding. -
1874
Sir William Osler observes small cell fragments from the bone marrow create clots from blood vessels. These are called platelets. -
1901
Karl Landsteiner discovers that there are three differnt types of blood. He calls them A, B, and C, which later changes to O. -
1902
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli find a new blood type. Ther is a combination of blood type A and B. -
1914
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding citrate to the blood will prevent clotting. -
1916
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner discovered that a citrate-glucose soution that allows blood to be stored for weeks. -
1917
Oswald Robertson stored type O blood in citrate-glucose for casualties in WWI -
1922
Percy Lane Oliver began a blood donor service out of his hme. He had volunteers to donate blood. -
1930
DR. Serge Yudin was the first to transfuse humans with cadaver blood. -
1937
Bernard Fantus created the term "blood bank" to describe blood donation. -
1939-40
Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a women giving birth to a stillborn. -
1940
Charles Drew create a way to seperate and preserve blood plasma, which will substitute for whole blood. -
1941
The American Red Cross agrees to create a service in which people donate blood to collect blood plasma for WWI. -
1943
Paul Beeson believes that there is a link between patients reeiving jaundice after they have gotten a blood transfusion done. -
1947
Community blood banks joined together to create a national network of b lood banks called the American Asociation of Blood Banks. -
1948
Carl Walter created a plastic bag to collect blood. They used to use glass bottles. -
1959
Through x-rays, the stucture of hemoglobin and the protein within blood cells can be seen. -
1965
Judith Pool discovered that thawed frozen plasma deposits high in Antihemiphilic Factor. The deposits are called cryoprecipitates. -
late 1960's
Edward Shanbrom produced a highly cocentrated form of factor VIII to have a stronger plasma. -
1971
Baruch Blumberg finds a substance on the surface of hepatitis B that creates antibodies. -
1981
The first cases of AIDS were recorded. -
1982
Bruce Evatt believes that hemophilia may be linked to the blood. -
1983
The virus, AIDS to found to be located in the lymph node in the back. -
1984
Robert Gallo announces that HTLV III is the virus that is casuing AIDS. -
1985
The first blood screening test was performed to view the presence or absence of HIV antbodies. -
1987-2002
Sensative Screen tests have been done to test for hapatitis.
